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siege-engine

siege-engine is the alternative form of siege engine.

Meaning of siege engine

Noun

siege engine (plural siege engines)

  1. (historical) A large weapon of war used during ancient and medieval times to batter fortifications, settlements, etc.; specifically, a trebuchet or other type of catapult.
    • Opposite this hill Bohemund's men now began to dig in a definite direction. For the besiegers had devised this new mischief against the city and invented a new knavish siege-engine to apply to the town. For as they dug, they went along under the ground like moles boring holes in the soil and in...1928, Anna Comnena [i.e., Anna Komnene], “Book XIII”, in Elizabeth A[nna] S[ophia] Dawes, transl., The Alexiad (Byzantine Series), Cambridge, Ont.: In Parentheses Publications, published 2000, page...

Forms of siege-engine

pluralsiege-engines

Questions about siege-engine

What is siege-engine the alternative form of?
Siege-engine is the alternative form of siege engine.

Words near siege-engine in the dictionary

  1. siege train
  2. siege trains
  3. siege warfare
  4. siege weapon
  5. siege weapons
  6. siege-engine
  7. siege-engines
  8. siege-house
  9. siege-houses
  10. siegecraft
  11. sieged

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